Sports & Athletics

Coverage of Crimson sports and athletics—from team achievements to individual standout stories.

What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?

Athlete-payment case will change little for Ivy League athletes.

by Max J. Krupnick

Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis

Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949

Harvard football completes undefeated season in 2004

Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football team finished 10-0, won the Ivy League championship, and...

by Cleat

Harvard football 2003 midseason wrap

De profundis: Whatever else the football team may accomplish this fall, its second-half comeback in the season's Ivy League opener at Brown...

by Cleat

Profile of Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick '05

Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...

by Craig Lambert

A review of the 2003 Harvard's football 2003 season

Ryan Fitzpatrick '05, the football team's multi-talented quarterback, is a gamer. After breaking a bone in his throwing hand in the season's...

by Cleat

Ryan Fitzpatrick: The best Harvard quarterback since Barry Wood '32?

What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...

by Cleat

Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point

In June, Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point, Michigan. It was the first such title since 1974 and...

A Satisfying Season

A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...

Taut and Suspenseful

In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the football team fell to Lehigh, 36-35, in the final minute of...

by Cleat

Harvard football undefeated in 2001

After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...

by Cleat